Apparel-corset.



D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET. v APPLICATION FILED 1113.11. 1912.

vPatented Nov. 12,1912.

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D. KQPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLIOATION'FILED MAlLll. 1912.

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DANIEL Kors, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented N ov. 12, 1912.

Application filed March 11, 1912. Serial No. 682,923.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparel- Corsets, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to an apparel corset, with the object, through one series of parts, of supporting the abdomen and conforming thereto, and through another series of devices, in the same corset, of providing hose supporters for the performance of the usual functions thereof.

It is conceded in the manufacture of corsets, that hose supporters having a line of tension below and in line with the front steels, are a necessity, but where these are attached to the fabric body of the corset below the steels, they interfere with, if they do not destroy, the abdominal characteristics of the corset, because the tendency thereof is to pull the lower end of the corset, or skirts thereof, more or less away from the body and so remove support, and the object of my invention is to overcome this objection and difficulty.

In the device of my invention, and in combination with elastic fabric straps at the front and lower parts of the corset, I employ inclined boned stiffeners, in pairs or series, in each half of the corset, preferably attached to the under surface and extending from below the steels/in inclined directions upwardly toward the groin sections, consequently the combined action of the elastic fabric straps and the inclined bone stiifeners is to draw inwardly the lower portion of the corset with the lower ends of the steels and cause the lower end of the corset to closely conform to the figure for abdominal support. This is accomplished without any tendency to change the location or the support of these parts such as would be the case by the drawing out influence of hose supporters. These parts form the first? series of the device of my improvement. The second series include inclined straps with prolongations; the straps are fastened at their distant ends to the sides of the corset, and the lower ends of the prolongations to the skirt extensions of the corset, a hose supporter being connected to the lower end of the skirts and prolongations of the straps. With these parts, there are auxiliary straps,

which preferably underlie the inclined straps and are sewed thereto along their upper edges. These auxiliary straps have adJacent edges that come almost to the ccnter of the corset, and they depend to almost, or about, the depth of the prolongations of the inclined straps, to which they are attached, and hose supporters are connected to the lower ends of these auxiliary straps; hence provision is, made'for theusual hose supporters that are required for a corset and for the performance of their usual functions in holding the corset down to position and supporting the hose, all of which is hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation at the. lower front portion ofthe corset, according to my invention Fig. 2 isan elevation from the inside of the lower portion, the front steels, of one part of the corset. Fig. 3 is an edge elevation lof the steel, and so much of the corset as will lie inthe same plane, the parts being in the contour of use, and Fig. 4 is a section on about the broken line m a' of Fig. 1, illustratingthe position of abdominal support.

o Z2 represent the fabric body halves of the corset. al b1 the skirts. c the usual honing. (l the fr0-nt steels. 2 the fastening devices for connecting the vfront steels together, and 3 t are .studs in pairs, fastened to and projecting from the front s'teelsrnear the lower ends.

5 represents a fastening or hooking device connected to the fabric body at the meeting edges of the corset below the steels.

e and f represent elastic fabric straps, similar to those hereinbefore employed by me, and particularly shown and described in my Letters Patent No. 946,232, January 11, 1910. These straps are advantageously tapering and the respective ends of each strap connected to fabric parts, and the dis tantends of these straps are connected at the edge of the gore portion at the frontof the corset near the sides, and their adjacent ends near the front are sewed to the lower edge of the fabric body of the corset below the steels at the lines of sewing -6, and are also heldin position, preferably by the fastening 5, and by eyelets at the upper corners, which adjustably engage the studs 4.

z, and z' represent inclined straps with prolongations. h1 l are skirt extensionsor prolongations thereof. These inclined straps aresewed to the fabric body of the corset at upright edges as usual at the edges of the gores and at the sides of the corset, and the lower ends of these prolongations are preferably sewed to the forward corners of the skirts al b1, and I provide auxiliary straps /r Z, the upper edges of which are connected by lines of sewing 7, to the inclined straps h z', and from these lines of sewing 7 the said auxiliary straps hang lines-of connection to the corset and the studs 3 tending to pull down upon the corset and hold the same down upon the figure and simultaneously support the hose.

A special feature of my present invention, is the bone stiifeners m, preferably in pairs or series of two each, sewed in fabric strips and applied to the under surface of the corset at the lower parts below the boning and below the front steels. The lower ends of these bone stiffeners m come directly be-v low the front steels and they are inclined upwardly and outwardly toward the groin sections, but in all cases, underrunning and underlying the boning of the corset, to perform the function of springs attached at the bottom of the corset, below the front steels and boning which, with the combined action of pulling tensionupon the elastic fabric straps e, f, along their lower edges; bends said stieners causing the same with the straps to conform to the downward and inward curvature of the abdomen, in an eifort to support and hold the same; at the same time, acting to turn inwardly the lower ends ofthe front steels, causing them to have conforming characteristics to the body and support therefor. Especially is this the case in the adjustable relation that exists betweenthe eyelets at the upper corners of these elastic fabric straps e f and the studs 4C of the steels, to which the same are to be connected. Any tendency of the flexible lower portion of the corset to part or open is prevented by the fastening device 5, and the greater the tension applied tothe straps e f, and to the bone stifeners m, so in proportion the convexity of the lower front portion of the corset increases by said flexi-I ble part bending toward the body and consequently itssu'pporting characteristics are assisted. This 1s assisted by the fact that no hose supporters are connected to the lower frontportion of the corset. rIhe hose supporting function is related solely to the straps and theirskirt extensions with the auxiliary straps, and it will be noticed from Fig. 3 that these latter, with the application of tension thereto., in holding down the corset and supporting the hose, draw straight between their respective ends over the abdomen and clear of the lower end of the corset and the body.`

In my former Patents, Nos. 766,704 and 790,061, I have shown bone stiifeners employed in connection with the lower front portion of the corset, but these were used in connection with hose supporters and loop devices between their respective ends, to which the hose supporters were connected, as anchors for the hose supporters and so as to stilfen the fabric and prevent the same drawing together or puckering. The use was different, and the location was somewhat different to the device of my present invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an apparel corset, the combination with the fabric body halves, of inclined straps provided with prolongations, the inclined straps connected at their distant ends to the fabric body of the corset and auxiliary straps free from the corset body, at their upper edges connected to the said inclined straps and at their lower ends extending over the lower edges of the corset, and hose supporters connected respectively t-o the lower free ends of the auxiliary straps and to the prolongations of the inclined straps.

2. In an apparel corset, the combination with the fabric body halves, of inclined straps provided with prolongations and at distant ends connected to the fabric body of the corset, auxiliary straps at their upper edges connected to said inclined straps and otherwise free from the corset body, hose supporters connected respectively to the lower free ends of the auxiliary straps and to the said prolongations, and bone stiftenn ers in inclined series connected to the under surface of the fabric body and extending from below the front steels in an inclined upwardly extending direction toward the groin sections and overlaid by the said auxiliary straps.

3. In an apparel corset, the combination with the fabric body halves, and inclined elastic fabric straps performing an abdominal function extending over the lower portions of the corset and largely below the steels and stays or boning, of inclined straps provided with prolongations, the inclined straps connected at their distant ends to the fabric body of the corset and auxiliary straps free from the corset body, at their upper edges connected to the said inclined straps and at their lower ends extending over the lower edges of the corset, and hose supporters connected respectively to the lower free ends of tbe auxiliary straps and to the prolongations of the inclined straps.

4t. In an apparel corset, the combination with the fabric body halves, of inclined straps provided with prolongations and at distant ends connected to the fabric body of the corset, auxiliary straps at their upper edges connected to said inclined straps and otherwise free froin the corset body, hose supporters connected respectively to the lower free ends of the auxiliary straps and to the said prolongations, bone stiifeners in inclined series connected to the under surface of the fabric body and extending from below the front steels in an inclined up- Wardly extending direction toward the groin sections, and external overlying elastic fabric straps performing an abdominal function and both the bone stiifeners and elastic straps being overlaid by the said auxiliary straps. I

Signed by lne this 2d day of March 1912.

DANIEL KOPS. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINGKNEY, Manni D. Wol-ruins.

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